Praveen Kumar holds the tricolour flag after profitable the Gold Medal within the Males’s Excessive Leap – T64 occasion on the Paris Paralympics 2024, in Paris on Friday.
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Double Olympic-medalist Manu Bhaker, chess world champion Gukesh, gold-medalist Paralympian Praveen Kumar, and captain of the bronze-medal-winning Indian hockey group Harmanpreet Singh are the 4 athletes who might be introduced with the Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award, as part of the Nationwide Sports activities Awards 2024 introduced by the Sports activities Ministry.
The Arjuna awards for excellent efficiency in Sports activities and Video games 2024 might be introduced to a complete of 32 athletes, 17 of them being para-athletes, in honor of their success on the 2024 Paris Paralympics the place they introduced dwelling 29 medals together with seven gold and 9 silver. The awards might be conferred on the athletes by President Droupadi Murmu on the Rashtrapati Bhavan on January 17.
22-year outdated Manu Bhaker grew to become impartial India’s first athlete to win two meals in a single version of the Olympics. Paralympian Praveen Kumar, who gained the gold medal on the males’s T64 high-jump occasion on the Paris Paralympics, which is for athletes who’ve one or each legs lacking beneath the knee and depend on a prosthetic leg for working.
Here’s a full listing of the awardees. Click on on the every panel for extra info on that athlete.
Printed – January 08, 2025 10:58 am IST
